Visit at "Ulisse" bar - Firenze

Ulisse is located near Arca, but it has a service, Ulisse bar, inside San Salvi, a big area in Firenze, a structure that looks like a village within the city.
San Salvi was a psychiatric hospital from 1891 to 1978, when all the psychiatric hospital were closed thanks to “Basaglia law”.
Basaglia Law is the Italian Mental Health Act of 1978 which signified a large reform of the psychiatric system in Italy, contained directives for the closing down of all psychiatric hospitals and led to their gradual replacement with a whole range of community-based services, including settings for acute in-patient care.
Officially inaugurated in 1891 (its construction had begun in 1887), the hospital was dedicated to the great physician Vincenzo Chiarugi, an outstanding figure in the field of psychiatry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The San Salvi Hospital replaced the historic, but now inadequate, Florentine structures. The new complex was designed as a place able to respond to the new tendencies emerging in psychiatry at the time. In this sense, the relationship that developed between medical disciplines and psychiatric hospital architecture is particularly interesting. Basically, the project originated through close collaboration between the designer (Giorgio Roster) and the psychiatrists (Tamburini, Grilli, Pellizzari). The result was a village-like structure, consisting of several pavilions.
It is interesting to note that the hospital buildings were arranged within an ellipse. On the longer axis, to the west, were the men’s medical facilities, on the east those of the women. The two structures were connected by terraced corridors and underground galleries. The patients were housed in the following pavilions: the Calm; the Infirm and Paralytic; the Semi-Agitated, Dirty and Epileptic; the Agitated; the Pensioners; and the Paying Young Patients Section.
Located on the shorter axis of the ellipse were the administration (including the main office), the management and operational services (such as the kitchen, the laundry and the steam generator) and the religious ones (such as the church). These buildings were surrounded by a large park.
In 1895 the scientific laboratory was built and in 1904 the water supply system, which is probably the first work in reinforced concrete to be built in Florence. It was at San Salvi, in January 1918, that the great poet Dino Campana was interned, to remain there for many years, fourteen in fact.
Now we can find at San salvi area a lot of services. First of all the health services, but we can also find Cooperative B, one living healthcare for elderly, children school, university, “La tinaia” a rehabilitation center for psychiatric patients and one theater company.
Ulisse is a B cooperative, born in 1998.
Ulisse is finalized to the job placement of disadvantaged and disabled people according to the 381/91 law. It has many services, addition to the bar, it has repair services and bike rentals, it takes care of bulky waste collection, cleaning and maintenance, computer services, laundry services, social tourism.